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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the first day of the summer promotion weekend! From today till sunday we will have a huge amounts of matches from the teams who fight to get that sweet spot in the summer LCS. Today all of the matches from the Challenger Round will be played. These matches will be best of 3. On saturday and sunday we will see the final 8 teams fighting it out in a best of 5 for a spot to play with the big boys. Will we see the Spring Participants coming back for the summer, or will an underdog take the throne?

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Just to clarify, the casters and crew are aware that DAE was picked up by Mouz. But due to timing, we were not able to properly process the graphics, paperwork etc. As such we will be referring to them as Dexter is Actually Evil during the course of the broadcast.

They have a very real chance of doing well. According to this preview Samurai in Jeans recently beat Anexis. They were playing as Esports4Life and beat Anexis in the winner bracket Final of EU Solomid Invitational 4

I can't wait to find out what teams we will have in the LCS for the Summer Split! It will be Joe and I for MYM v DAE, then Deman and Qu1kshot for Alternate v Wizards, Joe and I for SNS v TCM then we end the day with Deman and Qu1kshot for Samurai in Jeans v Anexis.

ye it is a tough choice for me - I've been a wolves fan since the beginning of spring season, but MYM are my nationals and I really like their playstyle, too. Maybe i'll just be changing it for the particular matches.

That's because NA tournaments are held directly at the Riot headquarters. They have a LAN server especially for the LCS and people on site to fix it, should things ever go wrong. ESL has to play on the Tournament Realm, which they have no control of. It's Riot not wanting to give LCS the LAN server - understandably so, because that is hot stuff, and if it leaked, private servers would sprout within a week or so after.

The games till now are entertaining me, but wow this twitch chat is extremely annoying. people are saying omg this is a bronze game, omg MYM noobs picking tree,etc... Why do people have to be like this?

I'm really sad that Anexis is in the group with Wolves, after their performance at IEM Worlds (Beating SK, SK Telecom and MYM, with decent games against CJ Entus). I feel like they might be a good addition to the LCS, sadly, not instead of Wolves as they are the most promising team out of the current LCS.

Glad to see an upcomming team beat ATN that hard. Hope Wizards will keep going. Their problem, appearently, is that they do not know how to close the game. They might lose if they do not snowball hard enough to allow mistakes.

call me biased but i believe Dragonborns are better than those two teams.Only chance they have against DB is trademarked DB throws.If this Bo3 is their best games god help them they won't stand a chance against Fnatic Gambit SK EG..

Edit: I must give well deserved credits for players individual skills but i'm more interest about their team plays.

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised to see the exact same teams get through, even dragonborns. The teams that got through before were the strongest last time and the lcs is such a good opportunity to improve that I can easily imagine that they have widened the gap. Even the bottom teams looked strong by the end of week ten in a way they didn't at the start.